DAILY EDITION · NO. 1,279
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BEIJING, July 3 (Reuters) - Alibaba will ban employees from using Claude Code in workspace environments from July 10 due to alleged security risks involving embedded backdoors, a source familiar with the matter said.
thestar.com.my · 1h ago
Models
Valve has open-sourced its Inkterface E-Ink faceplate for the Steam Machine, sharing 3D files, BOM, and firmware so anyone can build one.
digitaltrends.com · 48m ago
In a squat building housed on a drab business park just outside Rotterdam, sleek white humanoid robots scuttle around, accompanied by a grey robotic dog performing various canine tricks.
thestar.com.my · 4h ago
Tools
South Africa's online grocery battle is entering a new phase where the competition is no longer just about delivering groceries faster, but rather about making shopping itself almost disappear.
thestar.com.my · 57m ago
Google has released A2UI v0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for AI agents to declare user interface intent across multiple platforms without arbitrary code. The update emphasizes alignment with existing design systems. It includes a new SDK for Python, improved error handling, and various transport...
infoq.com · 1h ago
Short video giant’s filing confirms SCMP exclusive; investors include tech heavyweights, state investment vehicles and entertainment firms.
scmp.com · 4h ago
Research
As AI coding agents become more autonomous, they increasingly ship code iteratively, with the codebase persisting across sessions. This persistence creates a new attack surface: a misaligned or prompt...
LLMs memorize sensitive training data, including personally identifiable information (PII), creating a pressing need for reliable post hoc removal methods. Unlearning has emerged as a promising soluti...
Many everyday programming tasks resist clean rule-based implementation, such as alerting on important log lines, repairing malformed JSON, or ranking search results by intent, and are increasingly out...
Despite alignment training, LLMs remain prone to generating unsafe outputs at deployment time. Monitoring outputs online and raising an alarm when safety can no longer be assumed is therefore critical...
Understanding and reasoning over long contexts has become a key requirement for deploying large language models (LLMs) in realistic applications. Although recent LLMs support increasingly long context...
LLM agents will increasingly act in socially structured settings where role, audience, and relational context can shape what is advantageous or costly to say. We study whether such social structure, w...
Chatbot Arena
| # | Model | Arena ELO | Code ELO | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 1509 | 1653 | 4.3K |
| 02 | Claude Opus 4 6 ThinkingAnthropic | 1504 | 1542 | 55.1K |
| 03 | Claude Opus 4 7 ThinkingAnthropic | 1502 | 1559 | 41.9K |
| 04 | Claude Opus 4 6Anthropic | 1499 | 1536 | 58.6K |
| 05 | Claude Opus 4 7Anthropic | 1494 | 1557 | 43.1K |
| 06 | Muse SparkMeta | 1487 | — | 13.6K |
| 07 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 1486 | 1445 | 73.1K |
| 08 | Gemini 3 ProGoogle | 1486 | 1439 | 41.3K |
| 09 | Claude Opus 4 8 ThinkingAnthropic | 1484 | 1561 | 22.3K |
| 10 | GPT 5.5 HighOpenAI | 1481 | 1483 | 37.3K |
Arena ELOUpdated Jul 3, 2026Source: Chatbot Arena
Pricing
| Model | Company | Input | Output | Context | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | FRONTIER |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M | |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | FASTEST |
| GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M | |
| o4-mini | OpenAI | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K | REASONING |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M | LARGEST CONTEXT | |
| Grok 4.20 | xAI | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Meta | $0.15 | $0.60 | 1.0M | OPEN SOURCE |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Mistral | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K |
* Prices are approximate. Check provider websites for current rates.
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Research
Maria believed she was romancing a prince from Dubai, captivated by his flirtatious smile and declarations of affection he showered on her during live video calls. But the suitor was an artificial intelligence (AI) deepfake, making her yet another victim of an online romance scam.
thestar.com.my · 2h ago
Fable 5 went dark worldwide in under an hour. Here’s the pattern that makes the vendor irrelevant
uxplanet.org · 9h ago
Learn
The Internet used to be silly and original. Now it's just boring.
thestar.com.my · 1h ago
July 2 (Reuters) - Blackstone's QTS said on Thursday it had terminated its planned Digital Gateway data center project in Virginia and withdrawn the associated filings after years of planning and regulatory review.
thestar.com.my · 6h ago
This Ryzen AI workstation keeps the old chip, drops the old chassis, and doubles down on RAM
techradar.com · 7h ago
Prompts
Summarize today's top AI story in three bullets for a busy founder.
Compare the two newest frontier models on coding, reasoning, and price.
Explain this AI research paper's core contribution in plain English.
Draft a no-hype LinkedIn post about the latest model launch.
Turn this AI news article into five sharp, quotable takeaways.
What does this release practically change for working developers?